Week 6 Overview

Week 6 February 24 – March 2

Reading: Meikle and Young C3 From Broadcast to Social Media [20]; Johnson, S. (2012, March 16). Can anything take down the Facebook juggernaut? Wired. http://www.wired.com/business/2012/05/mf_facebook/all/1 Links to an external site. ; How Luther went viral: Five centuries before Facebook and the Arab Spring, social media helped bring about the Reformation (2011, December 17). The Economist. (also listen to interview) http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/12/social-media-16th-century Links to an external site.

Discussion: Meikle and Young C3; Johnson; How Luther went viral

Quiz: Quiz #5 (Meikle and Young C3) closes Sunday at 11:59 pm.

Task: Going Viral WorkshopResearch Project Workshop - submit project proposals

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